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  1. 1797-1878. US physicist, inventor of the
  2. electromagnetic motor 1829 and of a
  3. telegraphic apparatus. He also discovered the
  4. principle of electromagnetic induction,
  5. roughly at the same time as Michael Faraday,
  6. and the phenomenon of self-induction. A unit
  7. of inductance (henry) is named after him.
  8.